Auction No 435, Category: History
6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)
"Bapu’s Letters to Mira 1924-1948", Navajivan Publishing, Ahmedabad, 1949, first edition, signed and inscribed by Mira on front endpaper.
"Bapu’s Letters to Mira 1924-1948", Navajivan Publishing, Ahmedabad, 1949, first edition, signed and inscribed by Mira on front endpaper.
Lot 24
Lot: 24
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £40 - £60
Bapu's Letters to Mira 1924-1948, Navajivan Publishing, Ahmedabad, 1949, first edition, signed and inscribed by Mira on front endpaper. Errata slip loosely inserted. Printed boards, slightly marked; fine internally. ‘Bapu' was the nickname of Mahatma Gandhi and ‘Mira' was his friend Madeleine Slade.
William Oldys & Thomas Park "The Harleian Miscellany, London 1808-13, ten volumes, quarto, bound in plain boards, paper-covered backstrips;
William Oldys & Thomas Park "The Harleian Miscellany, London 1808-13, ten volumes, quarto, bound in plain boards, paper-covered backstrips;
Lot 98
Lot: 98
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £80 - £120
William Oldys & Thomas Park The Harleian Miscellany, London 1808-13, ten volumes, quarto, bound in plain boards, paper-covered backstrips; contents complete. Binding of Vol.1 badly damaged, first 16 leaves of Vol.VII heavily damp-affected. Each vol. with small library bookplate to pastedown. (10).
"An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire", HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket
"An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire", HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket
Lot 103
Lot: 103
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £40 - £60
An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Roxburghshire, HMSO, 1956, 2 vols, in d/jkts, folding-map in rear pocket of vol.2; Ridpath Border History, Mercat Press, 1979 reprint, in d/jkt; Dickinson A New History of Scotland, 1962, 2 vols, in d/jkts; George Alexander Cooke A Topographical Description of the Southern Division of Scotland, C. Cooke [c.1805], lacking map, rear board detached; and other Scottish titles. Mainly VG/VF (11)
Nash & Spezzano "Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking' Eastern Poland 27 April 1944", RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards
Nash & Spezzano "Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking' Eastern Poland 27 April 1944", RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards
Lot 104
Lot: 104
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £30 - £50
Nash & Spezzano Unternehmen Ilse: 5. SS-Panzer Division ‘Wiking' Eastern Poland 27 April 1944, RZM Publishing, 2019, large format, pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. 328pp. Fine
Urbanke & Senholdt "Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt", 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin "Bloody Vienna", 2020
Urbanke & Senholdt "Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt", 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin "Bloody Vienna", 2020
Lot 105
Lot: 105
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £40 - £60
Urbanke & Senholdt Escape from the Halbe Pocket! The Story of Tank Officer Joachim Senholdt, 2021, in d/jkt; Nevenkin Bloody Vienna, 2020, pictorial boards; Urbanke Endkampf um das Reichsgebiet 1944-1945, 2020, in d/jkt; and Volker Ruff Der Tiger 2018, 3 vols. Bilingual German/English texts. Fine (6)
Presentation book to Sir Cyril Ashford on his retirement from his role as head of Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1927,
Presentation book to Sir Cyril Ashford on his retirement from his role as head of Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1927,
Lot 106
Lot: 106
- Auction Date: Wed 25th Jun 2025 12:00 BST
- Est: £30 - £50
Presentation book to Sir Cyril Ashford on his retirement from his role as head of Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1927, with signatures of 41 colleagues. The book also includes the names of 41 staff members of the Royal Naval College as Osborne but these are written in the same hand as the presentation inscription. Bound in leather, gilt, lacking spine.